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Introduction

Abiword is a word processor that provides a lighter alternative for OpenOffice Writer, while at the same time providing great functionality. Abiword supports many standard document types, such as OpenOffice.org documents, Microsoft Word documents, WordPerfect documents, Rich Text Format documents and HTML web pages.

Installation

Before you install, you'll want to install dictionaries if you want spell check.

# pacman -S aspell-en

To install, run:

# pacman -S abiword

For additional plugins:

# pacman -S abiword-plugins

To fix tiny cursor and misaligned text issues, install these fonts:

# pacman -S ttf-freefont ttf-ms-fonts

Fix for Print dialog crash

For some reason, the current versions of Abiword and libgnomeprint are not playing nice together. The .abw default template causes the program to crash when the user attempts to print. The solution is to force abiword to work with the .rtf format instead. By following the steps below, you will set the default save format to .rtf and trick Abiword into using a .rtf file as its default template.

Open ~/.AbiSuite/AbiWord.Profile and insert the following line into the second <scheme> section.